The death toll in Syria has reportedly topped 7,500 after 11 months of the government's crackdown on anti-government protesters and armed rebels. Activists say more than 250 people have died in the past two days alone — mostly from government shelling in Homs and Hama province.

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Lybia: Quash Death Sentences of Nine Former Officials (UA 166/15)

A Libyan court has sentenced nine men to death who had been part of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime, including his son Saif al-Islam and head of Military Intelligence, Abdallah al-Senussi. The men’s trial was seriously flawed.

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